Argentina’s coach Carlos Retegui was as cool as a cucumber despite the 1-6 thrashing they received at the hands of World Champions Australia on Monday. He was quite relaxed about the result and said that the two victories are good and “we will come back’’. “We are not too much worried about this loss,’’ he quipped.
“We have six points and we are happy so far with how things are going. Australia played better than us today but we are playing against the best in the world. We will regroup and prepare for the quarterfinals,’’ he added.
Argentine defender Gonzalo Peillat, one of the senior members of the team, said: “Australia scored two early goals and we could not fight back. They had a very good game but in general we are very happy with our performance.”
Hero Man of the Match Australia’s Russell Ford said: “It was a hard-fought match, We expected a tough match from Argentina but today we really put pressure on them. It is always tough coming back after a defeat, as we had lost 1-0 to the Netherlands but we did well today.”
Australian coalch Dr Ric Charlesworth who was frustrated with the team’s lack of implementation of the plans on field in the previous matches was relieved a bit. “We haven’t been playing badly. We’ve been making chances but we haven’t been finishing them. So you get six goals from one game and you get three from two games. Maybe that’s the way it sometimes happens but I’m happy with the result. We relaxed a bit in the end; I don’t like that but it happens. We got a good start and sometimes it makes all the difference.”
After a rest day on Tuesday, the teams return to play the quarterfinals on Wednesday.
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